Today’s episode of Research Like a Pro is about how to create a family history blog to help you share family stories. Whether you want to write family stories, recruit DNA test-takers to help with a particular research problem, or connect with distant cousins to collaborate on research, a free blog can help you. Learn about free blog platforms, how to organize your blog posts, setting a schedule, and reading other family history blogs.
Transcript
Nicole (1s):
This is Research Like a Pro episode 277 How to Start, a Family History Blog to Share Stories Welcome to Research Like a Pro a genealogy podcast about taking your research to the next level. Hosted by Nicole Dyer and Diana Elder accredited genealogist Professional Diana and Nicole are the mother daughter team at family Locket dot com and the authors of Research Like, a pro A Genealogist guide with Robin Wirthlin. They also co-authored the Companion Volume Research Like a Pro with DNA, join Diana and Nicole as they discuss how to stay organized, make progress in their research, and solve difficult cases. Let’s go the sponsor of today’s episode of Research Like a Pro Is newspapers.com, the largest online newspaper archive.
Nicole (50s):
Hi everyone. Welcome to research Like a Pro.
Diana (52s):
Hi. Nicole. how are you today?
Nicole (54s):
Great. I am just really enjoying the fall. How about you?
Diana (59s):
Oh, same. I’m just waiting for the other shoe to drop. It’s just sunny and beautiful and I know it won’t last, so I’m just enjoying it so much.
Nicole (1m 9s):
How’s your research going?
Diana (1m 10s):
Well, I’m excited to actually start the research because in the study group we’ve been doing all the work to get ready for research. so I have my research plan set, and this week I’m going to dig in and get going on the things I really wanna do for the project. so I, am excited for this week. It’s always really fun after you’ve thought so much about this case, what you can do to further it. So yeah, I’m gonna be looking at some tax records and looking in the tracked books for some tract book entries for the LAN patents that I’ve been working with, doing some descendancy research to find a possible mitochondrial DNA test taker, all sorts of fun things to work on.
Nicole (1m 55s):
Yay, I’m excited for you. Yeah, I’m, I’m looking forward to the research as well, and I haven’t finished my research plan, so I’m gonna do that. One thing that I noticed is that since I’ve done several phases of research on this dire research project, I have some kind of open ends that I never really addressed fully in my reports that I had logged in my research log, but I didn’t know what to do with. And so I found myself repeating some searches that I already had in earlier Logs, and I was like, I feel like I’ve seen this before because I hadn’t really fully used it in my report, if that makes sense. So what I’m gonna do for my research plan is put all of the things that I had found in previous sessions that I hadn’t really written about into my summary of known facts, just so that I can remember I already have them.
Nicole (2m 40s):
And then maybe in my plan I will fully transcribe those. It’s like a few deeds and like some estate records from Granger County Tennessee. so I think I’m gonna make a plan of what to do with those.
Diana (2m 51s):
Yeah, sometimes there’s little pieces just hanging out there that we have to take care of.
Nicole (2m 56s):
Yeah. And since I’m gonna have to separate men of the same dire surname, those people I had found before that I didn’t really know who they were now are gonna be more relevant to this phase. So it’s time to bring them back.
Diana (3m 9s):
Nice. Well, let’s do some announcements. We have our Airtable quick reference guide on PDF available from our website. And if you’ve been wanting to try out Airtable, this is the wonderful way to get started and learn what to do with it. And then we have our Research Like, a Pro Webinar series for 2023 continuing. Our next Webinar will be on Saturday, November 18th at 11:00 AM Mountain Time. And the title of this is Origins of Isabella McFall, an early 19th century British immigrant, DNA case study, and the presenter is one of our fabulous researchers, Melanie Witt.
Diana (3m 49s):
She is an MSC and a Qg, so she has her master’s of Science from Strathclyde University and Qualified Genealogist credential from the British Isles, the qualifying board there. And so I’m excited to learn from Melanie about how she used DNA with some British research. Then we have the next Research Like, a Pro of DNA study group beginning in the spring of 2024. We’ll actually start in February. And so I’ll be watching for registration when that opens. And if you’re interested in being a peer group leader, we would love to have you apply. And that application is on our website.
Diana (4m 29s):
You get complimentary registration and you get to work with a small group and make progress on your research as well as helping others. And then join our newsletter for any coupons or specials that we have on any of our products. We are excited to think about upcoming conferences. The next conference we’ll be Roots Tech, which will be here before we know it. And Nicole and I are both speakers for that. And so we are excited to think about another big conference that will be in person and virtual.
Nicole (5m 2s):
Well, for our listener Spotlight, we have a listener who wrote in and asked us how to share family stories with a family history blog. So today we will be talking about that. The first step in starting your own family history blog is to choose a blogging platform. Most people will probably want to choose a free blogging platform, and there are a lot of these that out there that are available. There’s wordpress.com, Blogger dot com, Wix dot com, and Weebly dot com. And there’s several even more beyond this, but these are some of the big ones. I have had a Blog on Blogger and on Weebly and on WordPress, and we use WordPress for one of our family history blogs.
Nicole (5m 46s):
So we like that one. But whichever one you choose, just know that if you do choose a free blogging platform, it will have the name of the platform appended to the URL because it’s free to you. So it’ll be something like Schultz family stories.wordpress.com or kelsey family history dot Blogger dot com, something like that. So if you don’t want to have that in your URL, then you will have to pay to host your website yourself using a website host. And when we first started family Locket dot com, we used Blue Host to be our web host, and so we pay them to have a website.
Nicole (6m 28s):
Then instead of building our own website from scratch, we use the wordpress.org free open source platform for creating websites. And it includes a blog and you can create other pages. So we’ve found that that’s been pretty easy to use, not having a background in making websites or software design and that kind thing. So we are able to have a web URL that doesn’t have wordpress.com within it, or Blog spot.com in it. And we just have family Locket dot com. We don’t host at Bluehost anymore because our website got larger. So now because we have more visitors, we use Kinta, which is a more expensive web host.
Nicole (7m 13s):
But if you’re just starting out, Bluehost has a lot of really affordable options that you can use to host your website. So whether or not you want to do a free platform or a paid platform, that’s like your first decision to make. And I recommend starting off with a free platform and then going from there.
Diana (7m 33s):
Okay, well thanks for taking us through that. I know the very first blog that I did was, I believe it was called From Seed to Shelf, and it was about nothing related to family history, it was about gardening. And so I had planned to do these fun blog posts showing how my garden started in the spring and progressing through the summer all the way to canning whatever I was doing, you know, fruits or vegetables. And I did two or three posts and it was fun to do, but then I didn’t really have a, a good motivation to keep it going. So when you said you were starting a family history blog, I was really excited because at that time I was working with people at the Family History Center here in my local area, and I was having to explain the same thing over and over, and that was how to upload a source to Family Search.
Diana (8m 23s):
And I thought if I can just write a Blog post and tell them how to do it, I can send people to that blog post. So that was my very first blog post, and it was so fun to share that. And I think I spent something like four hours on it because it took me forever to get it just right. You know, it is fun to share. So let’s talk about what the purpose is of a blog. There are all sorts of purposes. You know, my initial purpose was just to share this information, but you know, we have built Family Locket now so that it is also a website for our business and So. you can think about if you want to eventually become a professional genealogist and you want it to be your website where you can maybe share research tips for your specific specialty or put information about you or sample reports, you know, whatever you would like to do.
Diana (9m 21s):
Now, maybe you have no interest in being a professional genealogist, but you would like to share family stories in a way where people can find them. Maybe you want to be able to write a little story and then put a link to that on Facebook so that all of the nieces and nephews or your children or grandchildren can see it and click on it and read it. Or you wanna have a link to a story that you could put on a family tree. You know, there’s so many different things you could do with it once you’ve got it out there. And one of the wonderful benefits is Cousin Bait. We get a lot of people that write in or comment or send us emails who are related to us.
Diana (10m 4s):
And sometimes they have really great information for us. In fact, one of my favorite stories is about Cynthia Dillard. And for a long time listeners, you know, she’s one of our brick walls, and I really thought that George W. Dillard was her father. But then I had another listener or reader who knew of that case, and she had photocopies of the George W. Dillard Bible pages, and she sent those to me. And together we figured it out and realized that no, Cynthia was not part of the family. It was another woman who was taking the place of Cynthia in those early, early censuses So.
Diana (10m 44s):
you know, was I disappointed? It wasn’t Cynthia sort of, but then I could finally let go of George. You know, sometimes you just need to let go of her hypothesis and move on. And that was really helpful. And then another cousin who recently contacted me within the last year was through my Eisenhower line, and that was really fun. He lives in Texas and has connections to a lot of the family there. And he connected with me through my research on John d Eisenhower that I had written about and talked about on the podcast and done a presentation about. And so he is connected with some cousins there and found somebody who could do some DNA testing for us.
Diana (11m 28s):
And so that’s so great. You know, these connections with our family are wonderful, and it’s really, really great to have a website or a blog with some information about the family that can get the attention of someone just searching on the internet. And another use that we have of our website, we have a lot of client projects that involve DNA. And often as we’re working through these, we realize the need to recruit a lot of DNA test takers. Often these projects are back several generations, and we just need more coverage of that Ancestors genome. And so we set up a special webpage.
Diana (12m 8s):
It’s a private webpage, unless you know specifically who to look for. You can’t really get to it from our website unless you have the URL. And it’s a link that people can put in an email or in a message on Ancestry and say, this is our project, would you be willing to let us use your DNA to solve this case on our family history? And so that’s been really helpful for a lot of our projects to get more people to share their DNA with us so we can make progress.
Nicole (12m 40s):
That’s so great. It’s good to think about the purpose of your site and what you’ll want to do with it when you’re starting out. You know, what are you gonna do? Are you gonna share stories or are you gonna build a business? Are you gonna do cousin bait? Are you going to recruit test takers? There’s so many things that you might want to do with your Family history website. Well, the next thing to think about is the URL, the name of your website and the tagline or subtitle for your website. The URL and the name might be the same or they might be a little different. Some people that I know have created the URL with just their name. So if I were going to do that, my website might be called Nicole Dyer dot com or something like that. And then if you’re planning to be flexible with what you do with your website, you can change over time.
Nicole (13m 23s):
Or if you know that the purpose of it is to share family stories along a certain line of your family, you might want to call it Schultz Family Stories or Schultz Family History or something like that. If you want to share stories from all different lines of your family, maybe you would want to give it a different type of name. We tried to come up with something that was kind of family related, but a little bit different, a little creative, not using the typical terms like family tree in it. So we brainstormed a lot of different things like Grandma’s Hope, chest and Family Locket, and eventually we did just choose Family Locket with a picture of Ancestors inside of a heart-shaped Locket. We then made a tagline to tie it all together, which was finding Ancestors and keeping them close to the heart, which brings in the image of the heart in the Locket, and also kind of tells people what the purpose of our site is, which is to talk about finding our Ancestors in research, and then also keeping them close to the heart, which can make us think of all different kinds of things related to family history, like honoring our Ancestors, learning about them writing their stories, sharing family history with other people and our family and that kind of thing.
Nicole (14m 32s):
So that’s how we came up with our name. One great thing about the name or the title of your website is that you can change it, but the URL can’t change. Well, you can, but it’s best to keep it the same in in order so that people who are following you can continue to find your blog even if you do tweak the title a little bit. So just think of AURL that you will, you will want to keep for the long term. And then the title of it, you might be able to tweak depending on kind of your purposes. And then the tagline, the subtitle of your site can help people understand the purpose of the site. And now a word from our sponsors. newspapers.com is your ultimate resource for discovering your family’s history.
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Diana (15m 52s):
Well, let’s talk about how to organize your website or your blog. And if you’re writing on a lot of different topics, and even if you’re writing just family stories, you’re going to have a lot of things to think about for how you’d like to organize. And so we think of our blog posts as being in a certain category. So think of chapters in a book. If you were writing a book on your family history, you would likely have chapters for different family lines or different Ancestors and So. you can do something similar to that on your blog. But if you are doing a lot of different things, you can have broad categories.
Diana (16m 32s):
So for instance, on our website, we have categories like the podcast and research tips, creating and sharing family stories. And so when we write a blog post, we can select one of those categories and then it puts it in that category for anyone trying to find those types of podcasts or blog posts. Now, you could also have it be along family lines. I’ve seen a lot of blogs where people will have a category just for the Schultz line, just for the Eisenhower line, just for the Royston line and So, you could do something like that.
Diana (17m 13s):
I would recommend that you look at a lot of different family history blogs, see how other people have done it, see what you like, see what you don’t like, think about how you could do yours to fit your needs and the unique purpose that you are envisioning for your specific Blog. Then we have it set up so that when we write a Blog post, we can put in tags. And so this is like a book index. If you’ve done any kind of tagging before, say I, I use tags in Evernote, or you know, if you use something like hashtags and Twitter or Facebook, it’s something, something similar. But on our site, whenever I write something, I can put in two or three tags.
Diana (17m 56s):
And so I’ll typically put in something like a record type. If I’m writing about tax records, I can use that as a tag. If I’m writing about one of my Ancestors, I can use a surname if it’s a specific topic such as sharing stories, or maybe it’s about a place. So North Carolina, you could do all sorts of different types of tags so that if someone is searching your site and they put in researching in North Carolina, they would pull up the blog posts that you have tagged with that. So tags are really neat and they’re easy to do, but again, you just need to think a little bit about what you would like to use for your specific blog.
Nicole (18m 39s):
So true, it’s good to think about that and, and you can adjust things as you go along, which is what we’ve done. It really helps though to think about the categories and the tags as chapters in a book for categories and tags, the index. And once we got that in our mind, it was easier to figure things out. One tip that we’d like to share about posting on your blog is to set a regular schedule and try to keep that. This will help you be accountable, and it will also help other people want to regularly come back and read your blog, whether it’s your cousins or your fellow family, historians and friends. And if you are having a hard time keeping up with a Weebly or monthly schedule posting, then you might want to collaborate with a friend or a family member to help you keep up your schedule.
Nicole (19m 26s):
Working together with my mom has made it so much easier for us to keep our Blog posts going, and as we’ve expanded our family, Locket researchers, it’s been so fun to have other people on our team share their expertise on our blog as well. So maybe consider if you might want to work together with someone else on your Blog. And then as you set a schedule to post, maybe it’s going to be Weebly, then you can start thinking of what you want to post about. And maybe the first week of the month you’ll focus on one family line, and the second week of the month, you’ll focus on another family line. Or maybe every week you’re going to choose a different Ancestor, just randomly.
Nicole (20m 8s):
And we’ll talk about some post ideas,
Diana (20m 11s):
Right? Well, it is great to work with other people because things do happen in your life. You go on vacation or something unexpected happens and you can’t get back to your blog for a while. So it’s really nice if you do have someone else who can help you with that. And I have loved the series that our researchers have written. We have one by our Irish English researcher, Jessica on Irish Research, a six part series, which is just fabulous. And then we’ve got another series on Pennsylvania German research by Alice and Heidi. And these series are fun, and I actually really like to do series.
Diana (20m 52s):
So that’s a fun idea. If you have something that you really wanna dive into and it seems like it’s going to be really, really long, I highly recommend just breaking that up and do part one, part two, part three, or even more parts, because you know, you don’t wanna have your blog posts be too long, and then if you have broken it up, you have more content just to keep on going with that schedule. So that’s a great tip to take a good topic and then do a little bit of a series with it So, you might want to have a list of ideas for blog posts. And once you start writing, it’s amazing how your brain just starts getting in there, and you’ll have some ideas for what you could write about.
Diana (21m 37s):
And people will often say to me, how do you get so many ideas about what to write about? And really, we are researchers everything that we are doing with our genealogy kids, with ideas of what to write about. We have so many little case studies as we’re working. You know, you can write a whole blog post about that really cool will that you found, or how you figured out a connection or just a neat DNA discovery. There’s so many things that we can share and write about. And so when those come up, get those written down. I have a big long list of blog posts that I have not even done half of them yet, but those are right there for when I’m in the mood or when the time is right to do those.
Diana (22m 20s):
So keep your list. And then I would recommend scheduling them. You know, consider it like a job. Make yourself do it. You have to schedule some time and maybe you have a certain day of the week that you are going to always write your posts and that they come out on back When we first started, we’d say, okay, every Wednesday we’re gonna have this kind of a blog post and every Saturday this type. And so that would get us making sure that we’re in writing, keeping things going. So figure it out and then put ’em on your calendar. And another tip is to just get started. When I teach how to write research reports, I will just say write.
Diana (23m 1s):
Just write. Get a draft down. Well, the same thing is true for blog posts. Start writing. And often, once I get started, things will start coming. And don’t try to finish it all in one day. I like to write the basic bare bones post, and then I like to come back to it the next day after it’s had a chance to settle a bit. And then I will edit and, and rework it. So start it early in the week, and then give yourself a day or two to think about it and then rework it a little bit. That works much better for me than just sitting down and trying to throw something together on just one afternoon and, and then post it right away, you know, figure out what works for you. But that’s, that’s my tip for writing.
Nicole (23m 41s):
What a great idea. Well, one of the things that we’ve learned from our blog is that we really like having footnotes on the blog posts. And the way that we’ve done that is by adding a plugin to our WordPress site, and it’s called Easy Footnote. You might wanna consider something like that for your blog posts. And if you’re using WordPress, you could use easy footnote plugin, but it’s really nice to be able to use a little bit of short code to insert a footnote in the text. And then it will automatically number the notes for you after you’ve put them all in. And then it will link between the number and the bottom of the article with the footnote text.
Nicole (24m 25s):
And you can actually even hover over the number to see the footnote text within the text and not having to go to the end. So there’s a lot of really great things about using a footnote plugin like that. It really helps your readers to be able to see your footnotes easily. When you’re in a longer blog post So, you might wanna consider like using different plugins like that to make your blog articles easier to read. And just think about that when you’re getting started. And it’s good to cite your sources. It’s good practice for your genealogical writing to include your source citations in your blog posts, even though it might seem like you don’t need to or you don’t want to, or the people who are reading it won’t care.
Nicole (25m 6s):
But if you care about it and you wanna have a more professional look to your articles and stuff, then I highly recommend including the source citations as footnotes.
Diana (25m 15s):
Oh, I love that. As soon as you found that plugin, I started doing that, and it has been wonderful. I love having the citation there and being able to hover over it, especially so the citation doesn’t muddy up the text, but someone who’s reading it can quickly see my sources. So that has been great. And one tip on those footnotes, I found that when I’m writing about research, I often have my Airtable open and I have my citations already created in there. But some of the articles I’ve been writing about Ancestors, I maybe didn’t have an Airtable log for them, or I didn’t have a research log because I was just attaching things to their records on Family Search or Ancestry.
Diana (26m 2s):
so I started just doing an Airtable timeline for them and creating the citations. And that really helped me to write those posts so that I’ve got the Airtable for their life, or just for the portion of their life I’m writing about. And I have those citations created, so then it’s easy to plug ’em into the blog post. so I had to figure out a way to do that for articles I was writing that didn’t already have citations created, ready to go. All right, So, you wanna have some images in your blog post. What we like to do is have a set format for our title image, and we use the program called Canva, and it’s easy to use to create nice images.
Diana (26m 47s):
And we have templates. So if you look at our website, you’ll see that we’ve got templates for some of our, our basic categories based on color. So our research tips have a green, I don’t know what you would call those, kind of a, a heading at the top. And the stories have a red one, and DNA has yellow. So by color, you can tell the topic and the category of that blog post. And so we don’t have to recreate the wheel each time for putting that little image at the title, the title image. We just have a template where we can change the title and put in some different pictures, and it makes it so much easier and it makes everything uniform.
Diana (27m 29s):
So that is another tip. And you’ll need to be on the lookout for images that you would like to use that aren’t under copyright. Now, you might be using a lot of family pictures or some documents that are fine to use. You know, you want to always check and make sure. But, it could be that you are writing about a place and you wanna have a really nice picture of, say, a farm in Oklahoma. I’ve done that one, or the Dust Bowl I’ve, I’ve looked for that one before. And so some good places to find images that aren’t under copyright are the Library of Congress, because those are government photos that cannot be copyrighted in the United States.
Diana (28m 10s):
And then there’s Flickr. I like Flickr the Commons because you can search by copyright status, So, you can find things that have no copyright restrictions, or you can find things that maybe you need to contact the owner of the photograph and ask for permission. I’ve done that before. You can look for all sorts of different photos and or images and then know exactly what you can use and what you can’t. And then there’s also Pixa Bay, which has royalty free images. So there’s some different places that you can get started with looking aside from your own photos, your own documents.
Nicole (28m 48s):
Those are some great ideas. Another way to get ideas for what to do on your family history blog is to read other people’s family history blogs. And when we first started, we read all kinds of blogs and just kind of started subscribing to every blog we could find that was interesting, that related to family history. And that gave us so many ideas for what kind of posts to do what we wanted to write about. And just getting an idea of what’s possible. So if you haven’t started reading a lot of other people’s family blogs and family stories and stuff, that might be a good place to start doing and, and one way you can encourage other people to come back and read your blog is to leave a comment on their blog and kind of start making friends virtually that way.
Diana (29m 37s):
Oh, that’s a great idea. We did that with so many people and we met them at Roots Tech as ambassadors and just really built some great connections. Well, if you need ideas of what to write, I would suggest that you look at Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors Prompts every year. Amy is a fellow Blogger and educator. She’s a certified genealogist and has wonderful ideas for researching your family. And she has prompts for every week of the year, and they’re just short little prompts. And I’ve really enjoyed writing to several of those.
Diana (30m 18s):
I haven’t been able to write every single week about my an Ancestor, because I also do, you know, other blog posts about research tips and DNA, but I have written several, and it has been a wonderful way for me to tackle some research on closer in family. So one of the first ones I did, the prompt was education or educating, something like that. And I was thinking about who I could write about, and I thought about my dad. And my dad was the first member of his family to get a college degree, and he got that through the World War II benefit of the GI Bill.
Diana (31m 0s):
And I just decided I wanted to dig into his schooling. And so I titled it The Education of Bobby Jean Schultz. And I had all these interesting sources when I got going, and I started an Airtable timeline for him. And I looked at his early years. He had school records there in Oklahoma, which I thought were so interesting. And I had a picture, I had some things from his histories about school, and I had a copy of the school record. And I finally figured out when I returned to these records that he was going to school there on the Cherokee reservation with the headquarters in Tahlequah.
Diana (31m 41s):
So this was in Oklahoma, and they were trying to see how many Cherokee children were enrolled, and his dad was the one who was taking this little school census. so I didn’t really understand the record at the time, but when I wrote about it in the blog posts, I, I figured it out. so I wrote all about his schooling through high school, and then I had his college yearbooks. And so I included some information about that, and it was just really fun. It was really neat to take this one little piece of my dad’s life, his education, and then just really expand on that. And I’ve enjoyed doing that for so many other Ancestors using those prompts from Amy Johnson Crow.
Diana (32m 23s):
So it’s a great way to get started and makes you think and have a lot of fun. And then you’re part of a community who’s also doing the 52 Ancestor Challenge.
Nicole (32m 35s):
Awesome. Well, to wrap up this, I wanted to talk about Geneabloggers. It’s spelled like Genealogy, G-E-N-E-A, bloggers. So Geneabloggers Geneabloggers dot com is a place where you can find other people who are writing family history and genealogy blogs, and you could also register your Blog to be included in the listing. And if you’re a premium member of Jenny Bloggers, then you can have a description of your Blog as well. Otherwise it will just show the name of the Blog, a link to it and the categories. So that’s a great resource if you’re wanting to read other people’s blogs to get ideas, and also to register your own family history blog so that other people might be able to find it as well.
Nicole (33m 22s):
And so if you’re wanting to start your family history Blog, then we recommend that you look into the different free blogging platforms and maybe read a few of the blogs on Jenny Bloggers first. One thing to note about if you’re using wordpress.com is that their free service will have ads on it until you upgrade to the premium. So if you’re wanting to have a free blogging platform that doesn’t have ads, maybe look into some of the other ones like Blogger or Weebly and see what you can find out about those. But those programs are always changing. So I’m not really up to date on everything as far as the different free platforms for blogging.
Nicole (34m 4s):
so I, I suggest that you do your homework on that before you make your choice. I, I do know that Blogger is connected to Google Accounts, so if you already have a Google account, you might wanna try starting with Blogger. I do have a couple blogs on there that I used to write about our family and about our son who was born with spina bifida. We used to have a blog series about that. So we used Blogger for that and it was great and it was connected to Google. So anyway, there’s a lot of options out there and we hope that if you’re wanting to share your family stories with a blog, that you’ll have gotten some great ideas from this podcast episode. Well, thanks for listening. We hope you have a great week.
Nicole (34m 44s):
Alright, thanks
Diana (34m 45s):
Everyone. Bye-Bye bye.
Nicole (34m 48s):
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Research Like a Pro with DNA Resources
Research Like a Pro with DNA: A Genealogist’s Guide to Finding and Confirming Ancestors with DNA Evidence book by Diana Elder, Nicole Dyer, and Robin Wirthlin – https://amzn.to/3gn0hKx
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